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Student newSpaper of the univerSity of Southern California SinCe 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | vol. 178, no. 40 | tuesday march 26, 2013
InDEX 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 11 · Classifieds 12 · Crossword 12 · Sudoku 16 · Sports
Bearing all: the play wolves
brings modern twist to little
red riding hood. PAGE 7
Full-speed ahead: Men’s
tennis throttles texas a&M
at Mark’s Stadium. PAGE 16
in MeMoriaM
By yasmeen serhan
daily trojan
Memorial services were planned
this week in honor of the recent
deaths of juniors Xinhai Huang and
Samuel Levine.
The memorial service for Levine
was held Monday night at 10 p.m.
at the Sigma Chi fraternity house,
where the brothers of Sigma Chi held
a candlelight vigil in Levine’s honor.
The memorial service for Huang
will take place today at 5 p.m. in Room
450 of the Ronald Tutor Campus
Center.
Huang, a 22-year-old junior
majoring in electrical engineering,
Memorials
honor two
students
Undergraduate students
Xinhai Huang and Sam Levine
died during spring break.
| see SErvIcE, page 6 |
governMent
By daniel rothBerg
daily trojan
Fifteen states, including Texas and
Florida, have put rules on the books
banning political contributions while
their state legislatures are in session.
Now, Dan Schnur, director of USC’s
Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics,
is looking to add California’s name to
the list.
“I have put together a proposal that
would ban all legislative fundraising
and all fundraising for statewide
officeholders at any time that the
Legislature is in session,” said Schnur,
a former chair of the California Fair
Political Practices Commission.
Currently, California bans
contributions from lobbyists during
the legislative session but does not
ban other fundraising. Though
Schnur said this rule means well, it
does not prevent other contributors
from writing a check during the
session.
“Under the current system, the
majority of legislators can attend
fundraisers at breakfast, lunch
and dinner every day they are in
Sacramento,” he said.
Schnur’s proposal would limit all
contributions during the legislative
session, a regulation Schnur says is
necessary to weaken the link between
political giving and government
activity.
“Like it or not, fundraising is a
legitimate political activity,” Schnur
said. “But, legislating is a legitimate
political activity, too. And they
shouldn’t be done simultaneously.”
Schnur said the ban could produce
several positive outcomes, such as
increasing bipartisanship, reducing
the appearance of impropriety and
curbing the purchase of access during
Unruh director seeks
Calif fundraising reform
Schnur’s proposed ban would
limit donors’ contributions to
candidates on a campaign.
| see rEform, page 2 |
By christina schoellkopf
daily trojan
Students with a meal plan can find
out where to eat their next meal on-campus
and what will be served with
a few taps on their smartphone.
Fitz Tepper, a freshman majoring
in business administration, created
the Eat at USC app, which lists all
of the locations to eat on campus,
including each venue’s location and
some items on its menu. The app was
launched earlier this month.
Tepper was the application came
out of his necessity for finding food
on-campus.
“It really kind of started as
something that I needed,” Tepper
said. “It was a way of solving my own
problem.”
Since its launch, the app has been
downloaded more than 350 times,
Tepper said. Though information
about where food venues are and
what they serve each day was already
available on the USC Hospitality
website, even USC Hospitality agrees
that the information is not convenient
for students on the go.
USC Hospitality associate director
of special events, sales & marketing
Erika Chesley said seeing Tepper’s
application came as a surprise to
USC Hospitality because it was
already planning to develop its own
application for USC venues.
“It actually was, in a way, kind of
comical because, coincidentally, we
were going to name our application
‘Eat at USC,’” Chesley said.
Chesley, who downloaded the app
on her iPhone, said she appreciates
Tepper’s work on the application.
“We’re actually really grateful for
him for having done this because it
just proves our point, which is that
it’s the road we want to go down,”
Chesley said. “He did a great job with
the information that is there and he
was very accurate.”
Chesley said USC Hospitality will
continue the development of their
own application as part of their
multiphased project to incorporate
technology. The department hopes to
introduce the application to incoming
freshmen at summer orientation.
Students have responded favorably
to the new application. Nicholas
Stillman, a freshman majoring
in international relations global
business, said the application is
especially helpful for accessing dining
hall menus.
“It’s extremely user-friendly,”
Stillman said. “As a freshman, I think
the menus for the dining halls are
great. I check the menu every single
day.”
Chesley echoed Rolwes’
sentiments, saying that she looks
forward to making USC Hospitality’s
information more easily accessible.
“We all live by our phones these
days,” Chesley said. “So it just makes
sense to have an application where the
information will be readily available
to our students, staff, faculty and also
to visitors of the university.”
Student creates application
to catalogue dining options
USC Hospitality said they
also planned on creating an
application for food venues.
innovation politiCS
By madisen keavy and
chelsea stone
daily trojan
A USC Dornsife/Los Angeles
Times poll found that 72 percent
of California voters were in favor of
changing the immigration system
to include a path to citizenship,
while 21 percent were opposed to
such a policy.
The USC Dornsife/Los Angeles
Times poll conducted March 11-17
offered insight into three pertinent
issues regarding education, gun
control and immigration. The full
sample included 1,501 registered
California voters, and the poll
results had a 2.9 percent margin of
error. The poll was conducted with
Republican polling firm American
Viewpoint and Democratic polling
firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner
Research.
In a video posted on the
poll’s website, Dan Schnur,
the poll’s director, said that
despite disagreements between
Congressional Republicans and
Democrats, voters seek change to
current immigration policies.
“Many Congressional
Republicans are opposed to a
path to citizenship,” said Schnur,
director of the Jesse M. Unruh
Institute of Politics. “Many
Congressional Democrats are
leery of enhanced order security
and a guest-worker program. But
California voters understand that
Poll finds Calif voters for gun control
Both California Republicans
and Democrats agreed on
need for immigration reform.
| see Poll, page 6 |
austin vogel | Daily Trojan
In memoriam · About 300 students gathered Monday at the Sigma Chi
Fraternity on The Row to honor Sam Levine, a junior who died in Mexico.
92%
8%
Should immigrants be given a path toward citizenship?
The USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll conducted March 11-17 sampled
1,501 registered California voters, noting a 2.9 percent margin of error.
88% 83% 76%
DEMOCRATS INDEPENDENTS REPUBLICANS
Should there be background
checks to buy guns?
62%
33%
5%
Should an assault weapons
ban be put in place?
Should we divert money from
wealthier income to lower
income children for education?
50%
50%
SUPPORT
DO NOT SUPPORT
NO RESPONSE
source: usc dornsife/l.a. times poll design by christina ellis

Student newSpaper of the univerSity of Southern California SinCe 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | vol. 178, no. 40 | tuesday march 26, 2013
InDEX 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 11 · Classifieds 12 · Crossword 12 · Sudoku 16 · Sports
Bearing all: the play wolves
brings modern twist to little
red riding hood. PAGE 7
Full-speed ahead: Men’s
tennis throttles texas a&M
at Mark’s Stadium. PAGE 16
in MeMoriaM
By yasmeen serhan
daily trojan
Memorial services were planned
this week in honor of the recent
deaths of juniors Xinhai Huang and
Samuel Levine.
The memorial service for Levine
was held Monday night at 10 p.m.
at the Sigma Chi fraternity house,
where the brothers of Sigma Chi held
a candlelight vigil in Levine’s honor.
The memorial service for Huang
will take place today at 5 p.m. in Room
450 of the Ronald Tutor Campus
Center.
Huang, a 22-year-old junior
majoring in electrical engineering,
Memorials
honor two
students
Undergraduate students
Xinhai Huang and Sam Levine
died during spring break.
| see SErvIcE, page 6 |
governMent
By daniel rothBerg
daily trojan
Fifteen states, including Texas and
Florida, have put rules on the books
banning political contributions while
their state legislatures are in session.
Now, Dan Schnur, director of USC’s
Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics,
is looking to add California’s name to
the list.
“I have put together a proposal that
would ban all legislative fundraising
and all fundraising for statewide
officeholders at any time that the
Legislature is in session,” said Schnur,
a former chair of the California Fair
Political Practices Commission.
Currently, California bans
contributions from lobbyists during
the legislative session but does not
ban other fundraising. Though
Schnur said this rule means well, it
does not prevent other contributors
from writing a check during the
session.
“Under the current system, the
majority of legislators can attend
fundraisers at breakfast, lunch
and dinner every day they are in
Sacramento,” he said.
Schnur’s proposal would limit all
contributions during the legislative
session, a regulation Schnur says is
necessary to weaken the link between
political giving and government
activity.
“Like it or not, fundraising is a
legitimate political activity,” Schnur
said. “But, legislating is a legitimate
political activity, too. And they
shouldn’t be done simultaneously.”
Schnur said the ban could produce
several positive outcomes, such as
increasing bipartisanship, reducing
the appearance of impropriety and
curbing the purchase of access during
Unruh director seeks
Calif fundraising reform
Schnur’s proposed ban would
limit donors’ contributions to
candidates on a campaign.
| see rEform, page 2 |
By christina schoellkopf
daily trojan
Students with a meal plan can find
out where to eat their next meal on-campus
and what will be served with
a few taps on their smartphone.
Fitz Tepper, a freshman majoring
in business administration, created
the Eat at USC app, which lists all
of the locations to eat on campus,
including each venue’s location and
some items on its menu. The app was
launched earlier this month.
Tepper was the application came
out of his necessity for finding food
on-campus.
“It really kind of started as
something that I needed,” Tepper
said. “It was a way of solving my own
problem.”
Since its launch, the app has been
downloaded more than 350 times,
Tepper said. Though information
about where food venues are and
what they serve each day was already
available on the USC Hospitality
website, even USC Hospitality agrees
that the information is not convenient
for students on the go.
USC Hospitality associate director
of special events, sales & marketing
Erika Chesley said seeing Tepper’s
application came as a surprise to
USC Hospitality because it was
already planning to develop its own
application for USC venues.
“It actually was, in a way, kind of
comical because, coincidentally, we
were going to name our application
‘Eat at USC,’” Chesley said.
Chesley, who downloaded the app
on her iPhone, said she appreciates
Tepper’s work on the application.
“We’re actually really grateful for
him for having done this because it
just proves our point, which is that
it’s the road we want to go down,”
Chesley said. “He did a great job with
the information that is there and he
was very accurate.”
Chesley said USC Hospitality will
continue the development of their
own application as part of their
multiphased project to incorporate
technology. The department hopes to
introduce the application to incoming
freshmen at summer orientation.
Students have responded favorably
to the new application. Nicholas
Stillman, a freshman majoring
in international relations global
business, said the application is
especially helpful for accessing dining
hall menus.
“It’s extremely user-friendly,”
Stillman said. “As a freshman, I think
the menus for the dining halls are
great. I check the menu every single
day.”
Chesley echoed Rolwes’
sentiments, saying that she looks
forward to making USC Hospitality’s
information more easily accessible.
“We all live by our phones these
days,” Chesley said. “So it just makes
sense to have an application where the
information will be readily available
to our students, staff, faculty and also
to visitors of the university.”
Student creates application
to catalogue dining options
USC Hospitality said they
also planned on creating an
application for food venues.
innovation politiCS
By madisen keavy and
chelsea stone
daily trojan
A USC Dornsife/Los Angeles
Times poll found that 72 percent
of California voters were in favor of
changing the immigration system
to include a path to citizenship,
while 21 percent were opposed to
such a policy.
The USC Dornsife/Los Angeles
Times poll conducted March 11-17
offered insight into three pertinent
issues regarding education, gun
control and immigration. The full
sample included 1,501 registered
California voters, and the poll
results had a 2.9 percent margin of
error. The poll was conducted with
Republican polling firm American
Viewpoint and Democratic polling
firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner
Research.
In a video posted on the
poll’s website, Dan Schnur,
the poll’s director, said that
despite disagreements between
Congressional Republicans and
Democrats, voters seek change to
current immigration policies.
“Many Congressional
Republicans are opposed to a
path to citizenship,” said Schnur,
director of the Jesse M. Unruh
Institute of Politics. “Many
Congressional Democrats are
leery of enhanced order security
and a guest-worker program. But
California voters understand that
Poll finds Calif voters for gun control
Both California Republicans
and Democrats agreed on
need for immigration reform.
| see Poll, page 6 |
austin vogel | Daily Trojan
In memoriam · About 300 students gathered Monday at the Sigma Chi
Fraternity on The Row to honor Sam Levine, a junior who died in Mexico.
92%
8%
Should immigrants be given a path toward citizenship?
The USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll conducted March 11-17 sampled
1,501 registered California voters, noting a 2.9 percent margin of error.
88% 83% 76%
DEMOCRATS INDEPENDENTS REPUBLICANS
Should there be background
checks to buy guns?
62%
33%
5%
Should an assault weapons
ban be put in place?
Should we divert money from
wealthier income to lower
income children for education?
50%
50%
SUPPORT
DO NOT SUPPORT
NO RESPONSE
source: usc dornsife/l.a. times poll design by christina ellis